Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America\'s tallest mountain.
When Walter was seventeen years old, Episcopal archdea.
His parents separated shortly after his birth, and his mother raised Walter in the Athabascan tradition, speaking her Koyukon-Athabascan language.
Born in 1893, Walter Harper was the youngest child of Jenny Albert and the legendary gold prospector Arthur Harper.
Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America\'s tallest mountain